Got the sniffles

19 July 2007

Today was [yet another] FTC Day.  I understood where all the essays were coming from, I think, though I don’t think I agreed with them all.  Or maybe I did.  Somehow, this is the first opportunity I have had to post since we got out of class early today.  Not sure how that happened.

18 July 2007

That movie was interesting, but also excruciatinly boring.  I suppose that’s just a mental block I need to get past, but for now, I can’t.  That movie made me want to fall asleep.  I apologize for any offense taken by any person(s) from class, but it was overwhelmingly tedious.

Today, in class, we watched the film “Gates of Heaven,” and discussed its intricacies…at least to a small degree.  This film was kind of cheesy, in a 1970s way, but it really made sense, especially once Dr. C pointed out the deliberateness of many of the details (background, coloring, room details, etc.).  I felt that I noticed many of the intentional placements, then more of these were pointed out in greater length,  I saw that I probably only got about 1/3 of the covert details.  Now, I know to watch more carefully, so that I can point things out to my sister and annoy her

Little Women and other literary adaptations

Today’s discussion of pornography vs. horror vs. tear-jerker made me think about the “fairness” of making one illegal, while Hollywood continues to churn out the others for the masses.  Honestly, it seems wrong to make porn illegal but to allow horror films and chick flicks, when,  essentially, they all accomplish the same thing in the end.  Relating that result to bodily fluids, however, strikes me as somewhat medieval, rather like an “old wives’ tale.”  That particular association between the three genres feels over-the-top, like the writer is pushing the limits/boundaries of societal acceptability.  In other words,  I see what she means, and I can vaguely agree with it, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it!